Batman Begins

Visto que La venganza de los sith al final resultó ser muy mala, nos queda la esperanza de que Batman Begins sea buena. Y por el momento, las críticas son muy positivas.

Roger Ebert habla muy bien de ella. Voy a extraer tres párrafos:

‘Batman Begins» at last penetrates to the dark and troubled depths of the Batman legend, creating a superhero who, if not plausible, is at least persuasive as a man driven to dress like a bat and become a vigilante. The movie doesn’t simply supply Batman’s beginnings in the tradition of a comic book origin story, but explores the tortured path that led Bruce Wayne from a parentless childhood to a friendless adult existence. The movie is not realistic, because how could it be, but it acts as if it is.

Luego:

I admire, among other things, the way the movie doesn’t have the gloss of the earlier films. The Batman costume is an early design. The Bat Cave is an actual cave beneath Wayne Manor. The Batmobile enters and leaves it by leaping across a chasm and through a waterfall. The Bat Signal is crude and out of focus.

Y al final:

I said this is the Batman movie I’ve been waiting for; more correctly, this is the movie I did not realize I was waiting for, because I didn’t realize that more emphasis on story and character and less emphasis on high-tech action was just what was needed. The movie works dramatically in addition to being an entertainment. There’s something to it.

Mientras tanto, la Flick Filosopher dice:

There’s no over- the- top Jack Nicholson villain here to make you chortle at how wacky a crazy actor can be in a role that lets ‘em loose. And I don’t mean to demean the Tim Burton installments of the Bruce Wayne saga, because they were great, in their day. (The less said about Joel Schumacher ones, the better.) But the day has changed, and as grim and semi- psychotic as Michael Keaton was — he was the definitive Batman for me until now — Christian Bale (The Machinist, Reign of Fire) brings a solemnity and a gravity to Bruce and to Batman that simultaneously creates a protomythic superhero and undercuts the idea of a protomythic superhero. This Bruce is, on the surface, the same Bruce we’ve known for years, who witnessed his parents’ murders as a child and grew up to direct the resulting anguish into vigilante justice- dealing. But Bale — aided by the beyond marvelous script, which is far more about the elemental roots of the character than any of the other Batman films — gives us a Bruce who isn’t just angry but lost, isn’t just bitter but struggling to find a way to deal with it. When he falls, early in the film, into the «path of the League of Shadows,» under the tutelage of the mysterious Henri Ducard (a shivery- splendid Liam Neeson: Kingdom of Heaven, Kinsey), we feel how precariously Bruce is teetering on the knife edge between genuine insanity and the just- crazy- enough to do what he knows needs to be done to save Gotham… and to save himself.

Y finalmente, James Berardinelli dice:

With Batman Begins, director Christopher Nolan has gone back to basics, jettisoning both the silliness of the TV incarnation and the gothic and fetishist elements of the ’90s version. This is a hard-core, down-and-gritty origin story – the tale of, as one might reasonably expect, how Batman begins. It isn’t intended as a «prequel» to the 1989 film – not only is Gotham City a completely different place, but key events of the Batman chronology are re-spun. Batman Begins is designed as the start of a new life, a reboot for the franchise. In the process, Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes.

Como detalle negativo, estas personas pusieron bien La vengaza de los sith. Hay que estar atentos.

Mañana hay preestreno. Yo no puedo ir, pero va un amigo que pilló las invitaciones:

Por detrás pone que eres un criminal si se te ocurre llevar una cámara de fotos al cine. Y te pide que te chives del vecino, como si tú fueses una boca de la verdad.

Yo iré viernes y sábado. Curiosamente, aquí en el cine todavía tienen reservada la mejor sala -la cuatro, a poder ser en la fila 13- para el cagarro, y han relegado a Batman Begins a una de las pequeñas. Qué triste.